Christian Leaders in Crisis and Narrative Control over Alien Disclosure from Pastor Meeting

According to the Daily Mail, Religious leaders have been told ‘prepare now’ for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations.

“Influential pastors are claiming that they have been told to prepare their followers for shocking revelations about UFOs which may upend belief in the Bible.”

A Republican lawmaker hit back at a pastor who claimed he was told in a secret meeting with other U.S. government officials that aliens had invented Christianity.

This pastor stated recently on X:

“They are preparing to tell us that they are from another dimension, that they are our creator, and that these beings, these aliens—whatever you want to call them—they were the ones that seeded us here, there is no such thing as God, Jesus was invented by them, the Bible was invented by them.” (Pastor Meeting Allegedly Told Aliens Invented Christianity, Republican Hits Back – Newsweek)

I have thoughts this morning about aliens. It is a subject I am personally annoyed by, and I dislike the fact, that it seems only Christianity as the dominant tradition is automatically placed as this mediator or ambassador of all human opinion on this topic. It is all conventional and is propped up by pop culture alien astronaut theories. Historical context, ancient mythology, esotericism and older, deeply sophisticated systems of philosophy and cosmology are left out of the theological conversation. The problem is not whether non-human, divine or non-divine intelligences exist, extra-terrestrially or inter-dimensionally. The problem is what this does for those in Power, particularly the oligarchs. The problem is with the particular government or rather particular administration initiating the disclosure, who are constantly engaged in rage-bait and distractions. This whole thing about “disclosure” is too integrated into Power and what it means for the military and “Christian religious leaders.”

Ordinary people everywhere, no matter what, are being left behind. Nothing has improved our lives on this planet, because of the two.

I have absolutely no excitement about alien disclosure, because of this corrupt administration, whom I and many of my fellow citizens do not trust. Also, because there is so much mythology surrounding “alien disclosure” and the confirmation bias it will unleash, people will not be fully capable of parsing and discerning what is true or false. This administration, e.g., are proponents within the Christian nationalist milieu in the United States, and only the monotheistic religions, specifically Christianity would be engaged in prepared “narrative control” over the existence of extraterrestrial, extradimensional, interdimensional and plasmoid life that defy modern physics. Monotheism as a system of human exceptionalism, of all, would be forced to reinterpret, adapt, double-down or fracture.

The reaction would be predictably defensive, e.g., by interpreting extraterrestrial life as demons, because it threatens its monopoly. However, the Christians never had it right, knowing the history of monotheism and how it absorbed and erased older cosmologies. It is Christianity’s fault for setting itself up as the only truth, because it replaced other systems, delegitimizing ancient and indigenous cosmologies. Ancient and indigenous cosmologies hold that intelligences and intermediaries participated in human origins, as well as held the idea that there are multiple creators, as opposed to the totalizing narrative of Christianity and monotheism’s idea that humans were directly created by one supreme God within a singular seven-day creation event. Gods, spirits or ancestors act as craftsmen within these layered cosmologies, and though some of these systems contain a distant or abstract principle beyond the gods, it is not directly involved in shaping bio-chemical evolution of life.

From my point of view as a Religious Studies writer that has studied and interpreted mythology all their life, reactions to idea aliens could be our creators or ancestors from people is frankly, sad and odd. The very idea that humans were “created (directly) by God” was not and is not a universal belief, or historically not the norm. It is the historical outlier, and Christianity has used for nearly two millennia, the argument that being a historical outlier means that the other indigenous and ancient systems were either wrong, inspired by demons, false, or anticipated Jesus Christ who was supposedly prophesied. Alien disclosure could also cause Christians to double-down and “push on us” the idea that Jesus was an alien. This is what worries me, because the disclosure comes from people preparing narrative control for their particular religion.

For a theosophist that must engage in all world mythologies, in ancient African, American and Central Asian traditions, all over the world, — take this into perspective — the human default worldview except for the “monotheists” (a reconstruction), was that humans were created by intermediary beings, or secondary powers (intermediary beings participated in this process), never and directly by the primary power, which cannot “create.” I have used the allegory of the Architect and his Mason-builders. This is how it is understood. It is consistent in ancient cosmology. If it so happens, that our evolution is tied to another species or even progenitors, this has no negative impact upon the involvement of molecular self-assembly, and stellar nucleosynthesis in the story of human evolution, nor upon our celestial or stellar origins of the mind.

Humans are literally composed of stellar remnants, with biochemistry connecting us to cosmic chemistry (e.g., amino acids in meteorites) from stars. I argued in Early Hellenic Philosophers on the Stellar-Fiery Origins of Intelligence, that this gives humans the ability to reflect on our own nature. Although, many myths across the world attribute our mind’s ability to contemplate its origins and reflect this quality, to the intervention of intermediary beings going back to the oldest cosmologies. There is intervention or sacrifice, to give us, place in us or “awaken in us” intellect as these myths word it — a fiery quality in the mind leading to capabilities to produce arts, craftwork, sciences, technology, and reflective philosophy about our origins.

Ancient humans across cultures imagined layers of creation by builders or crafty gods, secondary powers within the phases of Theogony or cultural heroes, not a single source. In Dogon mythology, as one example in Roots of the “Divine Spark” in African Religious and Philosophical Traditions, humans were shaped by the Nommo, or amphibious spirit-beings sent by Amma. We can go from Africa to China, to the Americas, Sumerian, and throughout Central Asia, and we will find the same patterns — there is no hands-on maker, and the task of cosmic building and creating is delegated to an innumerable number of elements and gods. In post-Axial monotheism, particularly the Abrahamic religion, the idea of aliens involved in creation or intervention is weird. It is understandable, but you must consider the history of the import through colonization, missionary activity and cultural export of modern theological inheritance of monotheism.

Unconsciously, it is assumed that “creation” must mean direct creation by the highest possible being. Our ancestors believed, humans were created by powerful intermediaries, and modern hypotheses are open to the idea that humans were shaped, guided or modified by other intelligences or beings not fundamentally different from us. Christianity is not the only religion convening meetings, but for Christianity and monotheists, it is about narrative control. They have the most to lose in such a case of discovery or disclosure, though it would vindicate ancient myths as prescient, not primitive. According to all fields, monotheism was not humanity’s first religion, but was created to legitimize later monotheistic systems, projected backward into prehistory. Ancient creation myths consistently describe assemblies of gods, councils, and multiple creators, directly contradicting the claim that early humans believed in a single, solitary creator. The Hebrew Bible preserves traces of this older pre-monotheistic worldview itself. Pre-emptively framing alien life as demons protects the exclusivity narrative it constructed.

I think of this in comparison to Theosophy. Monotheistic framework leads to several predictable trajectory, from denial to integration to possible submission or worship of aliens as angels or divine messengers. Monotheistic religion has not affected this instinct in humans. Theosophy on the other hand is a non-dual and non-theist position, meaning it rejects worship of any gods or highest beings, because the divine is within man and all beings share the same essence — the very teaching Christianity has demonized, but yet is taught also within every indigenous cosmology. If an extraterrestrial life appeared before humanity, the first to fall to their knees will be the most vulnerable among humanity, but also the theologians and pastors. Others will double-down or find a means to integrate it into their religious propaganda. Among all the religio-philosophical systems, Christianity has not equipped humanity with the adequate knowledge and maturity in philosophy to handle this reality, though they claim only other systems make humans vulnerable to worship other creatures and things besides Jesus Christ.